What we demand in this war, therefore, is nothing peculiar to ourselves. It is that the world made fit and safe to live in; and particularly that it be made safe for every peace-loving nation which, like our won, wishes to live its own life, determine its own institutions, be assured of justice and fair dealing by the other peoples of the world as against force and selfish aggression. All the peop
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What we demand in this war, therefore, is nothing peculiar to ourselves. It is that the world made fit and safe to live in; and particularly that it be made safe for every peace-loving nation which, like our won, wishes to live its own life, determine its own institutions, be assured of justice and fair dealing by the other peoples of the world as against force and selfish aggression. All the peoples of the world are in effect partners in this interes... Woodrow Wilson's excerpt from "The Fourteen points: (1918).
Article 231. The allied and Associated Governments affirm and Germany accepts the responsibility of Gernabt accepts the responsibility of Germany and her allies for causing all the loss and damage to which the allied and associated goverments and their nationals have been subjected as a consequence of the war imposed up them by the agression of Germany and their allies. The War Guilt Clause: Article 231, Treaty of Versailles (1919)
The World War One was the cataclysmic event that changed Europe and the rest of the world with far-reaching causes, scope and consequences. By identifying and examining Wilson's excerpt and Article 231, and putting them within context of the war, analyze how the First World War was a culmination of industrialization, nationalism, imperialism, and alliances that developed in Europe across 19th and early 20th Century. What was the nature of the war itself (when, who, where, and hwo it was fought)? What were the consequences of the peace that followed? Explain how the war itself shaped the historical development of Europe and the United States of America
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